Bishan Home ERC! Care

BISHAN HOME ERC! CARE

14 January 2012

On 25th September 1999, Bishan Home was officially opened by then our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. When they first started, Bishan Home was registered under the Bible Presbyterian Welfare services umbrella. They started from slightly 20 residents and growth into nearly 132 of residents. They come from different background of family.

In Home, they have friends who always talk, play, sing, and dance together, even though some of them never talk with other residents. As we know, these people are intellectually disabled individuals.

Many of our students wanted to join this event but unfortunately only 11 students are allowed to join this event. They were very excited when they know this is a charity event, and some of them never joined this type of charity event previously when they were back in their home countries.

Our students played some games, danced and shared their stories with the residents. We called the residents “buddy” so that they can have closer bonding with us. When we danced together, they are really happy because of our companionship.

The purpose of this event was to celebrate Chinese New Year with them, so during the dance session we got “Chocolate Ang Pao” from the organizers. At the end, everybody was happy because we had fun together and the students made a special day in the hearts of these residents.



Participants:
11 students



One of our students interacting with one of the Home's resident.



They receiving "Ang-bao"



Residents are playing around with one of the volunteers.




After one full happy day!!! Thanks Bishan Home! Cu next time!